The Isle of Wight Safeguarding Children Partnership works to protect children on the Isle of Wight.
Safeguarding children is everyone’s responsibility and our ambition is that everyone can recognise and respond to ensure that children, young people and their families are effectively safeguarded and supported.
Organisations that work with children and families have a shared responsibility to safeguard children in a local area and to work together in doing this.
There are three organisations that are required in law to (something that they must do, rather than something they can choose to do) to have formal arrangement in place to work together.
These three organisations are the Isle of Wight Council, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board, and the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police. These three organisations are called the
'Safeguarding Partners'.
This arrangement is called the
Isle of Wight Safeguarding Children Partnership (IOWSCP).
The IOWSCP works collaboratively with Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton Safeguarding Children Partnerships and this collective is known as
HIPS
. The HIPS partnership provides opportunities for working together across borders on strategic issues and common themes. This arrangement supports each LSCP area to retain a focus on local priorities.